WhiteSox2023

I saw this on Facebook. How does a “major league” organization do something like this?

Yes. “May earn additional $1.5M in performance bonuses”

True, but I think most teams realize Pham is too old and his glove isn’t good enough to be playing CF and RF except in a pinch. He’s negative fWAR across the board.

Well, if that’s true I’m glad he was retained.

Pretty sad return for two former top prospects that were acquired for Sale and Quintana. Oh well. It is what it is.

I’m not sure I’m buying it. If they waited this long to fire Grifol, what’s a couple more months and 40 more losses matter? ?

Getz tried to rush them back for the trade deadline. Fail.

Orioles refused to part with Coby Mayo and now they are calling him up…

Jesus, I realize that the Sox called Eloy back up too early while he was still hurt to try to get some sort of trade value out of him prior to the deadline, but how long does it take this walking disease to heal?

I think @ChiSox59 will be proven right and Eloy will be cut before the end of the season. They will eventually call back up Kjerstad whom they sent down for Eloy initially.

I never bought it. This is JR we are talking about. He’s a penny pincher. He let Hahn and Kenny run the trade deadline last year and then fired them in late August. He used them as the fall guys for last year’s horrible season and he will do the same with Grifol at the end of this season. He wants to make a big deal of firing Grifol at the end of the season to take the heat off of him and Getz. He actually thinks that Sox fans are this stupid to fall for this crap.

Gotta love how Moncada stayed worthless to the end. Couldn’t even stay healthy or get healthy by the trade deadline so the Sox could get a minor league scrub for him or at least dump some of his salary like with Eloy. Fucking bum…

The most hilarious thing about Pham is that he played 38 games in RF and 30 games in CF for the Sox. Meanwhile, the Cardinals have started Pham at DH and now LF tonight. The Sox literally have not cared about outfield defense for decades. It’s embarrassing.

They actually sent Heston Kjerstad and his .790 OPS down to get Eloy on the roster. Apparently, the Orioles don’t realize that Eloy’s career OPS is .790 and he hasn’t put up an OPS higher than that since 2022.

So they got out of some of Eloy’s remaining salary for this year and also his $3 million dollar buyout? This trade, the Tanner Banks trade, and the Robbie Grossman trade are Getz’s only unquestionably good trades.

They are going to set the record for worst record THIS season. The only question will be if it is just modern baseball or all-time.

Keaschall is three years younger than Vargas and also would have had a sixth year of control, not just five like Vargas. The Sox probably still could have gotten those two prospects from the Dodgers for Kopech in a direct trade with them. Getz is insane if he thinks adding Vargas was important for the present when the Sox have no one ready at so many other positions. Keaschall would have made much more sense since the Sox are still waiting for other guys to be ready like Montgomery and Quero, and perhaps Ramos.

His bat has been crazy good so far and he steals bases. And he was a 2nd round pick so the talent was expected. https://www.milb.com/player/luke-keaschall-807712

It was mentioned by another reporter, and prior to the deadline. Not just this Twitter account.

The original talk everyone here agreed on was that he was worth a backend MLB top 100 and a lesser prospect. Even if the Twins weren’t offering a second lesser prospect with Keaschall, I would have been much happier with this offer.

If this Luke Keaschall offer is true, we have the worst and dumbest GM in baseball.

So Getz passed on the Twins #5 prospect and MLB’s #92 prospect Luke Keaschall, who is likely moving up the charts with the way he is hitting. He can also play 2B and CF, while Vargas can’t play any position and is 3 years older than Keaschall. Getz passed on this kid for Vargas because he didn’t want Fedde in the division for next season when the Sox will be terrible yet again? Taking away Keaschall from the Twins long-term and giving them Fedde for one season would have been a great trade-off. Good god, Getz is fucking horrible.

Agreed. If he gets more than a minor injury between now and the end of the season, you aren’t getting anything for him.

“MLB trade deadline winners and losers: What were White Sox doing?”

The majority of that WAR for Moncada was earned years ago. In the last 3 seasons, he has been worth a total of 2.2 fWAR. That’s because he hits the IR with a mosquito bite these days.